The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1909-1911, August 26, 1909, Image 1
THE PICKENS SENTINEL:JOURNAL
Entered A prail 23, 1903 at Pilk,:us, s. C. as second class matterq underact ofCOngress of March 3,1879
39th Year PICKENS. S. C.. AUGUST 26, 1909. Nunber 14
State News ]
L-ou Wah , a trainmed n u Irse,
di,,d of Pellegra in Rock Hill.
A reunion of the Stot t ish Rite
Mlasons wa- hwl in Colunbia
August 2.125.
The rsidem,0fN. H1. Albrecht
in 0ran_-chnr rv ; destrt ved by
fire. Loss 8::5 n
A Coninission was issued to
the Marion otton Oil colmpanv
of Marion. Capital $25,000
A . T. Bn,win. forn ner mavor of
Newberrv an-l a well known
citizen,i. (h:v at his home.
)fnnisin1 wvaws issued to
nly of -Itetary. Capital ()I0.
Theo Win to atrn Mtil1s of Ro~(ck
Hill has ieased its capital
st4wk fr-win l 0.) to S.i00,00.
Johin A. Johnson, a Greenville
ha,k driver was shot to death.
Birdi G6asto,. (;We.d has been
arrestl. Chir-l -with the
(Pinlie.
A charter was issued to the
lullins Drivitg As,:-ociation of
allins. Tie calital of the
.associ.atioi is $15U0.
A cominission was issued to
the Southern .Audit company of
Columbia "I)ital of the
Cap6J. t . Tow1nse1(d of the
schooner BaltimoreN was shot in
NCharlestnt b)v Antonio Arietano
au Italian illo.
Dr. J.-1. c olon. a well
known physicia of t bbeville
c(ut y,jt\% (lietdi souiinIY ' at his
honi- from, hcart diseaSe.
A charter was issued by the
secretary of state to the Allen
dale Cotton Oil and Fertilizer
companv of Allendale. The
capital of the coipanv is 60,000.
Aiken and vicilitv experienc
ed one of the hardest rains early
Tuesdav morning that has ever
fallen there. It was a veritable
downpour. In about four hours
bet weenl ; and 7 inches of water
fell. TIhe streets were flooded.
The small dirainage pipes were
totally inadequate to handle the
water, so fast dlid it come. Sev
eral of the stores on Mlain street
have cellars full of water, and
in one ori two instances water
ran in the front dloor. The only
don aage repor'ted was a washout
in the railroad eut, just below
the bridge across Laurens street.
Firenman MIoont y of Sotuthern
Rail way vwa~s struck byv lightning
at Spart anh1urg .1Jnnet ion) while
in the act tof filling the water
tank of his enineim with water.
A terrile e'lectric storm'i was
raging and he stepped on the
tendler of his engine to open the
tank when the bolt of lightning
kno cked him senseless. At first
it was thought that he h-ad been
kille d. He is still in an uncont
sc'ious conditionl but is able to
move and make his wants
known. The storm Sunday was
the worst in many years. For
one' houri there was not a minute
when there was not a flash of
lighm ingi.. The house~( of A. Sit
ton was KItruck andl 3r. Sitton
was bad1lyv shocked.
Coul. jas. T. Bac"on, the veter
an editor of the EhletieldI C'hron
icle, writer and leeltu'er, has
b)een seriously indisposed fr
some tim' past. Foir the past
week he has been confinied to
his homie and in bed most ot the
time. Today he seenms to be do
ing tolerable well, bnt he is very
weak. Col. Bacon is an old
lamark nhere. well known to
every one in t h'' c'ountry andi he'
is especialy a favo rite anmong
the ladies. Ile' has b eenl hand
ling the pen foir m any vear's,
andi his many friends hope to
see him out soon antd at his ac
c'ustomied pla('e in thle editorial
roo ofU~t thei Edgefield Chr'oniclj
He has not been wvell since the
Centre Springs picnic in July.
which he attended.
Paragraphed.
Isaiah Saunders, colored liv
ing at Brogden, Sumter county
shot and killed his wife Fridav
with a shotgun.
County Supervisor J. 0. Grif
fin of Colleton county is "Shy,'
approximately $10,000, accord
ing to an item in the last isue
of the Colleton County News, a
paper published at Walterborro.
Edward Harris, aged 25,
member of a well known South
Carolina family, was shot and
killed at Rome, Ga., on Satur
day night by Frank Rossi, an
Italian restaurant keeper, whose
wife, the slaver claims, Harris
had insulted.
Prof. Alva Willis, a Charles
ton teacher, committed suici(e
at Fairfield, Ill., on Saturday by
jumping into a well, after strap
ping his hands securely together.
Bad health is given as the cause.
A telegram from Washington
gives the pleasing intelligence
that Dr. Wi. P. Jacobs, of
Clinton, who was so badly hurt
by being run over by a carriage,
is out of danger and will soon be
well enough to return home.
The contract for the Abbeville
high school building, which is to
have eight class rooms, has been
let to Mr. Jordan of Greenville
for 814,300. This does not in
cluce the heating and ventilat
A young white man named J.
L. Waldrop was arrested in Spar
tanbucg on Friday on a warrant
from Chester charging him with
burgalizing the store of J. -W.
Nix the night of June 28th.
Dr. J. M. Carlton, a wel'
known physician of Mt. Carmel
Abbeville county, died suddenly
on Sunday of heart trouble.
Robert Morgan, a white man,
aged 30, was thrown by some of
his fellowpassengers from an
excursion train in Abbeville
county on Friday, on its return
from Augusta to Anderson, and
his jaw broken and he was
otherwise seriously injured. He
was drunk and was firing his pis
tol, when he was thro wn from
the train.
Mary Brockman, colored, fired
three pistol balls into her hus
band at Riedville Saturday
night. The wounded man is
expected to die. Byrd Brock
man. her husband. was whip
ping his wife and the pistol drop
ped out of his pocket. The wo
man picked up the weapon and
opened fire shooting three times.
All three shots took effect, one
ball passed through the intes
tines,
John Dean Hall, a colored
convict, aged1 40, attempted to
escape from the Anderson chain
gang on Friday and was shot at
by one of the guards, the shot
going wild. Hall ran 40 yards
and then fell to the ground,
conmpletely paralized. Death
resulted later. Fear evidently
caused apoplexy. Hall was
serving a short sentence for
gambling.
Mr. W. E. Cambell has been
notified that he has been issued
a patent on en automobile tem
perature indicator that he has lat
elv devised and that he has been
granted the sole right to manu
facture the same for sale. The
device as its name indicates is
in tended to register temperature
auto)matically by electric alarm,
the specific p)urposes of the
device being to protect water
pipes, plants, ets., against freez
ing by giving an alarm when
the dlanger' point is reached.
Mr. R. M. Strange is joint own
er with Mr. Canmbell and just
what steps will be taken towards
the mnannfacture and sale of the
appliance will not be determinedl
until Mr. Strange returned from
his western trip.-Chester Re
orter.
R. A. Purser, agent of the
Singer Sewing machine con
pany at Chester, was arrested
on Friday on the charge of sc
ducing the daughter of a Char
lotte man under promise of mar
riage. le <knies the charge and
gave bond for $250 to appear for
trial.
F. B. Gibsmn, a persistent
blind tiger, was fined $40 on
Monday morning for selling
liquor. 440 again on Tuesday
lornil" and 840 again on Thurs
day noirning-all (if which he
paid to the city of Colimbia.
Ernest Clk burn, aged 19, son
of Capt. W. U. Clyburn, of Lan
caster couitv, coniitte(l sui
cide onl Frida y by blowing out
his brains with a shotgun, hav
in,g iekcd hiiself up in his
father's nmi. le was a (luiet,
stn(Ia v omi. nilan, and no
cause is assigned for the deed.
Alfred Jenkins the negro who
was convicted of attempted rape
and who has since confessed ful.
lv as to his guilt, was hanged
in Georgetown )n Friday. The
execution passed off promptly
without a hitch. There were
about 200 wit nesse.. The crime
was -1itempted )pon the persi
of a lady school teacher on the
Lower WVaccamaw river, on the
17th of June last. A special
term of court was held on J uly
27, Judge John S. Wilson pre
siding, and Jenkins was sen
tenced to be hanged on August
13.
In a severe thunder storm just
across the Calhoun county line,
in Orangebury county. Mr. Wil
liam A. Antly, the (epot agent
at the little station of Jamison,
was greatly shocked by a boltof
lightning which struck near by.
A physician was hastily sum
moned and the chances of his re
covery are fair. Ie was demriv
ed of speech for a while and his
system much shak en up.
Congressman J. E. Ellerbe, ac
companied by his private secre
tary, Mr. B. R1. Mullins. reached
home last week. His friends
there are delighted to find him
greatly inmproved from his recent
attack of pleurisy which he suf
fered while confined to the hos
pital on account of a broken leg.
Since reaching home he contin
ues to improve and is now able
to drive out to his farm, about
nime miles ab)ove Marion.
United States Deputy Marshal
McClain of Spartyinburg engag
ed1 in a terrible fight with Jim
H arris. a North Carolinian,
whom he had arrested on the
charge of violating the internal
revenmu laws. McC lain was
bringing Harris to the city in a
b)uggy, while traveling along a
lojnely road Harr-is made a des
perate attack upon the officer.
The officer was badly used up
in the fight, but landed his man
in jail.
It is prob)able that Gov. Ansel
will accompany President Taft
on his trip down the Mississippi
river from St. Louis to Newv Or
leans, leaving St. Louis on Octo
her 25. The governor)O receivedl
an invitation the othr' (lay from
the Lakes. to-the-Gulf Deep Wa
terway association and the Busi
ness Men's league of St. Louis
an<d when asked whether he
would accept or not said, "I hope
to do so and will if I possibly
ca n."' Many governors have
been invited also every miember
of bo0th houses of congress.
The Greenville city denmocrat
ic comimittee has found that ('.
H. Webb and W. T. Bull, candi
dates for aldermni from the
first ward, had each recieved
718 votes. The committee will
meet again Sat urdlay nmorning
and take up the nmatter of the
chiallenigedl voters. If the r'e
suit is not changed, the names
of the t wo can idates wvill be plac
ed in a hat and a boy not ov-er
ten years of age will draw out
the one who is to represent the
ward in the council. It is a
state of affairs never seen in
Greenville before.
Where do the tigers in Char
leston get their supplies now I
that the dispensaries have been <
closed?-Anderson Mail. ]
The State. Sunday announc
ed that only $400 more is need
ed to complete the $11,000 which
it undertook to raise on the
monument for the women of the i
Confederacy. The legislature I
appropriated $7,500,to be avail- I
able as soon as an equal amount i
should be obtained by private (
subscription.
Monroe Gamboll. colored, is
in Greenville jail for killing
John Johnson, a negro hack
man, whom he caught in a com
promising position with Birdie
Jackson, a first cousin of Gam
boll, on Saturday morning.
Gamboll gave a setback to thi3I
sort of plea, however, by fleeing'
from the city as soon as he did
the shooting.
Two colored women, in con
vict stripes, were to sweeping
the streets of Greenwood on
Thursday. One had been con
victed of selling whisky; the E
other of disorderly conduct, and
neither was able to pay her fine.
Since January 1st four negro
women have been convicted of
selling liquor in Greenwood, and
the mayor and chief of police
believe that making the offend
ers work will prove more. effec
tive than boarding them in jail. t
There was a small fire at the
Grendel Mills in Greenwood,
Saturday night, the fire origi
nating in the spinning room. A
barrel of oil caught fire and this
made quite a little blaze for a
few minutes. The fire was ex
tinguished by the sprinklers in
the mill and by the fire ladies
on the Grendel Mill hill before!
the regular fire company got <
there. When asked about the i
fire, President McKissick said i
that the total damage would not t
exceed two hundred and fifty (
dollars.
The following is an editorial t
in the lart issue of the Dorches- (
ter Eagle: "'There are now t
thirty-one convicts on the chain- t
gang, and recruits are sonstant
ly arriving. There w -e nine I
sent up from the town out of t
Summerbille during the past t
two weeks, six of the number '
being white men, and all of I
them taken up for vagrancy. ~
They are healthy fellows, and ~
it seem strange that they pre
fer working on the public works
of the county to honest toil.
But chief of police of Summer-.
ville says they must work."
A run-away match occurred I
in the mill village of Saxe-Gotha 1
about two miles from Lexing- a
ton, Friday night, when Miss I
Viola Risinger and Monroe I
Derrick ran away from their C
parents and were married. Miss
Risinger's mother objected to the a
marrage. The young women (
left home some time between the I
hours of 10 and 2 Friday night I
in her stocking feet and met the a
young man a short distance I
from the house and the two pro- (
ceedled to the residence of Not
ary Public T. E. Rawl where the
knot was tied. Both -:he parties
are about 17 years of age. I
A special from Charleston to
the Columbia State on Thurs
day contained the following:
"James Sottle was arrested to
day and bound over for trial
next Tuesday on the charge of
reckless driving of his automo
bile through the street. It is
claimed that he had liquor in his
touring car, and when about to
be held up by Sergeant Quinn of
police force he opened wide his
throttle so to spea.k and, with a
spurt and a jump, the machine
soon disapeared from view of the
officers. Only the skittish char
acter of the horse on which the
officer was riding saved him
from injury or perhaps death.
The horse was so fractious that
off icor had all that he could do
retaining his seat and could not
draw his pistol to stop the ma
chine. The police will press the
A young man about thirty,
riving his name as W. B. Nich
)lls, who had been loafing about r
?elzer, Spartanburg county,
vas tried for vagrancy on Fri-I. I
lay by a magistrate and sent to t
he chaingang for 30 days. C
The Columbia State says it
vould not be surprised if Char
Lston were to come next to Rich
and in contributions to thel
nonument for women of thei
,onfederacy. Charleston should I
ad the list and be satisfied with
Lo lower position. The noble
vomen of the Soitlland are
leserving of a great menioriall
,nd Charleston should be at the
ront in promoting the, project
Uiken Recorder.
t
Cotton for a-hospilal
Arrangements are bei n ma 1:
iy the patrons of the Fa;rmer's
Jnion Warehouse Compaiy to,
>resent the proceeds from a ba'e t
ir more of cotton to the hospital T
.nd the gift will be made with
n the next few days.-Ander
on Mail.
Mosquitoes in Greenwood.
Mosquitoes are getting decid
dly too numerous in Greenwood
nd our people should go to
vork and try to destroy them.
et us all look around our prem
ses, and remove every cause t
hat contributes to this nuisance.
-Greenwood Journal.
-100 t
Big Deal in Residence Lots.
One of the largest real estate
leals madE in Marion property
n recent years was consummat
d today when the Arcadia Land
ompany sold to Mr. W. H. Cross t
2 of its choicest half-acre resi- t
lence lots along Jones avenue.
['his is part of the 100-acre tract
if land purchased last year from
diiss Theodosia Jones and is
>eautifully situated in the nor
hern part of the town. Mr. I
ross will offer these lots to pros
>ective hone-huilders on easy
erms. and the property will
[oubtless soon be built up. as I
here is none more desirable in
own offered to the public. The t
and is naturally drained, the al
itude being perhaps greater
han in any other section of the ~
f
own. Jones avenue, along
vhich the lots extend, is the ~
roadest boulevard in Marion ~
nd is one of the most popular ~
f Marion's driveways.-Marion
tar.
Shot at Burglar.
Little Miss Lois Gwinn, the t
3-vear-old daughter of Mr. and f
rs. W. H. Gwinn, of 737 Row- t
ey street, frightened a thief t
,way from her parents' home t
riday night by firing a pistols
>all through a window outside -
f which she had heard a noise
s5 though sonme one w~as in the
etof breaking in. Mr. and Mrs.I
winn were returning homei
romn the theatre when they c
iard the shot fireYin their home s
nd thev, with the neighbors, r
ushed to their home' to find all y
f the children greatly excit- I
d and the thief gone,
That some one had made an ,
ttempt to enter the house y
brough the rear windlow was s
videnced b)y tracks that were
ound in the~ yard yesterday
noning. The little girl, eldest
af all those in the house at the
ie, heard the noise at the rear i
vindow and called to know whoi
ras entering. Rece'ivinig no re- t
ly, she wvent to her father's bed y
oonm and secured1 a revolver and ~E
>ointing the barrel in the direc
ion of the window, pulled the c
rigger. The explosion scared y
ier as much as it evidently
rightened the thief. All of the
maler children were crying ~
vhen Mr. and Mrs. Gwinn and t
he neighbors came to the house. e
Mr. Gwinn is con nected withi
dr. Pool's furniture store on
iain street. He said yesterday t
hat he believed his home would
iave been robbed by the thief or
hieves but for the rare bravery
Ld presence of mind of his lit
l damwMtr.-Greenville News .
Good Crop Raised
The fig crop never fails.
[his year it is the most abund
nt ever known. People who
ike figs can raise all they want
iy getting a sprout and set it
ut in the corner of the fence
r any other convenient spot. The
lushes will begin bearing the
econd year after being set out.
'he fruit is wholesome and is
tever infested with worms like
eaches, apples and pears.
'here are quite a number of
arieties, but the small celestial
,nd large brown varieties are
he best . If you want figs get
sprout from some neighbor's
ush and you will soon supply
-our neighbors.-Anderson In
elligencer.
Very Smart Hen.
We have always thought Mrs.
oe Mays had the smartest hens
a the county, but there is a lit
le precious Leghorn-game hen
ear Meeting street that has
roken all former records. Mrs.
ames C. Lowry has a hen now
arrying a brood of chicks that
vas only hatched herself in Feb
nary last. Although she
merged from the shell only
J)out six months ago, this hen
aid and sat upon the eggs that
iatched the chicks she is now
arrying. That is certainly in
ensive poultry raising. The
nother and her brood should be
mong the exhibits at the coun
y fair this fall.-Edgefield Ad
-ertiser.
Big Money in Honey
Mr. Beauregard Thompson,
vho lives several miles below
he city, has sold a little more
han 1,000 pounds of honey this
ummer, which he gathered
rom 26 hives.
He sold most of it to mer
:hants in thie city at 17 cents a
)ound, but sold a little of it, per
aps 50 pounds, to retail at 20
ents a pound.
Mr. Thompson was at no ex
ense. All he had to do was to
ather the honey and deliver it
o his customers. There was
ready demand for it.
Mr. Thompson says this has
een an exceptionally good year
or bees. The supply of honey
ew last spring was the finest
,nd largest he has ever seen, he
as.-Anderssn Mail.
Much corn in York
We are not prepared to say
vhether:or not the balance of
(ork county is as well fixed on
he corn question' as are the
armers along the King's moun
ain road between Yorkville and
he battleground; but if it is,
here will be no Western corn
old in this county next year.
-Yorkville Enquirer.
Big Price For A Melon
When Leroy Crosby, a big lip
tgro, paid Judge Wilson in
ourt, $25 for the priviledge of
tealing a watermelon, he re
rarked that it was the highest
>riced melon that he ever rubbed
is blue gums against. Leroy
vas found guilty of eating a
atermelon from a neighbor's
match without the owner's con
ent.-Anderson Intelligencer.
The Isle of Palms.
A bout the only place in Char
ston where there is no liquor to
>e had by the drink or otherwise
; on the Isle of Palms. Before
he issuance of the supreme court
njunction against the propri
tors of the Seaside hotel, liquor
.as to be had at various places
in the island for the price. But
iow the island is dry, really and
ruly dry, and it is probably not
o much on account of the in
unction as because of the fact
hat Mrj. P. H. Gadsden, the ex
cutive head of the Consolidated,
s a man whostands for the ob
ervance of law. There are said
o be plenty of would-be vio
ators of the supreme court in
unction, but they do not care
o run the risk of getting cross
~vise with Mr. Gadsen.-York
llc Ennnirer.
To Employ Road Engineer
There was a most enthusias
tic meeting of the dire'ctors of
the Commercial Club Monday
evening. The one subject was
that of road improvement. Mr.
Winslow made a very practical
talk and made some interesting
suggestions. Those who have
seen his good work are thor
oughly convinced an expert
supervisor is the first thing in
the improvement of the public
roads. As there is no proba
bility of an expert supervisor
being employed at this time by
the county board, who have no
funds for this purpose, it was
decided to start a fund for the
purpose of employing a county
engineer for one year. It is es
timated that the salary will be
about $1,200. The eight direct
ors present put themselves down
for $25 each, starting the fund
off with $200. It is understood
that one private citizen has
agreed to put himself down for
$100, provided the whole amount
is secured. The present com.
mittee on good roads, consisting
,of Messrs. J. Q. Davis, S. D,
Dunn, W. R. Elliott and J.
Frank Fooshe, were given the
task of raising this amount,
which must be forthcoming at
once. Here is where every
man in the county should come
in and help, Should an engi
neer be employed, he will be
turned over wholly to the county
and his time and services would
be at disposal of the board of
county commissioners. Instead
of confining the work to any
point near Winnsboro, the real
effort would be to have a. prac
tical demonstration in good build
ing in every portion qf the coui4
ty.-Winnsboro News and
Herald.
Postmaster King Exonerated
Postmaster King, of George
town, has been exonerated from
all charges of a short-age in the
money accounts of his office,
and no further proceedings will
be taken in the case by the de
partmeDt. Ab3ut two weeks
ago,upon the complaint of King'
bondsmen, postoffice inspectors
were sent to Georgetown to in
vestigate King's books, the
bondsmen claiming that the
matter, they believed, as short.
At the same time, a petition
was sent here asking the depart
ment, in the event there should
be a vacancy, that James E.
McQuade, also of Georgetown,
be made King's successor.
The inspectors have been at
work on the case for two weeks
and the result of their work was
made public only today. It is
shown that while King had sev
eral hundred dollars recently.
there was no evidence going to
show any criminal intent or
that he meant to defraud the
government. On the other
hand, there was evidence going
to show that because of heavy
personal demands upon him as
well as some irregularities in the
handling of funds, he had fallen
behind in his account with the
government. The amount he
owed has now been fully paid
up and nothing further will be
done in the matter. It was
stated that, in addition to the
report of the inspectors which
exonerates King, many of the
leading citizens of'Georgetown
had signed a petition and had
also written the Postmaster
General signifying their belief
that Mr. King was entirely
straight forward and honest,
and asking that no steps be taken
looking to his reinoval.-The
News and Courier.
Coming homne.
They have calmly chev ed their cuds
Through the burnin - su'mmer day.
Now they turn intoi the iane
In the twilight so and gray.
We can hear thel: :ikling bells
As the dusky pat:h they roam,
And a sense of pc -e descends
'when the cows e..m e home.
-They have "chew(.' 'he rag" for months
Through the tor- I summer heat,
And our business, as stood back
while they mad - heir job complete.
When we hear t. engine bells
As they journc in the gloam,
What a peace v:l' fall on us
When the conv:ess comes home!
I-McLa.ndburgh \.'lson in New York
Sun.